Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) is officially open after the biggest planned hospital move in Australian history.

The new $1.76 billion hospital in Parkwood opened its research and teaching facility earlier this year, but has now opened its doors to patients who have been transferred from the old Gold Coast Hospital.

By lunchtime the GCUH had received over 95 patients, with a total of 200 patients now transferred since Friday.

Ambulances have been moving patients from the intensive care unit, emergency department, central sterilising department, anaesthetic services, and medical assessment unit to the new facility.

Patients in neonatal intensive care, special care nursery and the birthing suite are also being moved in ambulances, while a fleet of taxis transporting the less seriously ill.